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People are enemies of what they do not know.Ali ibn Abi Talib · Nahj al-Balagha
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Knowledge without action is madness, and action without knowledge comes to nothing.Al-Ghazali · Ayyuha al-Walad
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Knowledge that is not acted upon is like a treasure from which nothing is ever spent.Ibn al-Muqaffa · Kalila wa Dimna
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Do not forbid a trait and then practice its like; great is the shame upon you if you do.Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali · Diwan (attribution shared with al-Mutawakkil al-Laythi)
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It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.Epictetus · Discourses 2.17
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I am wiser only in this one small thing: what I do not know, I do not think that I know.Socrates · Plato, Apology 21d
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All human beings by nature desire to know.Aristotle · Metaphysics I.1
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.Confucius · Analects 2.15
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When you meet a worthy person, think how to equal him; when you meet an unworthy one, turn inward and examine yourself.Confucius · Analects 4.17
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Learning is one's truest companion in a foreign land.Chanakya · Chanakya Niti (traditional compilation)
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